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vid," is preparing for the press, another historical romance of the fourteenth century, wherein the manners of our ancestors are displayed, and the singular adventures related of a goddaughter of King Richard the Second, and some particulars of that monarch not yet made public.

The Rev. HUGH PEARSON'S Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Rev. Dr. Claudius Buchanan, will soon appear.

Practical Enquiry into the Causes of the freSir WILLIAM ADAMS is about to publish, a quent Failure of the Operations of extracting and depressing the Cataract, and the description of a new and improved series of operations, by the practice of which most of these causes of failure may be avoided.

Mr. W. SAVAGE, printer, of London, has Mr. GRIFFITHS, author of "the Sons of Daissued proposals for publishing by subscription, Practical Hints on Decorative Printing; with specimens in colours, engraved on wood. Containing instructions for forming black and coloured printing inks; for producing fine press-work; and for printing in colours. As an ornamental book---it is hoped (says the Editor) that it may be deemed worthy of a place in the library of the amateur. Respect ing typography, it is intended to class with the finest works issued from the press: and, with regard to decorative ornament---the volume will be perfectly unique. The subjects printed in various coloured inks will be select ed from the chastest productions of antiquity ---medals, fragments of ruins, buildings, landscapes, flowers, quadrupeds, birds, and insects; and executed at the printing-press in the colours of the originals. As a practical work--it will contain instructions for forming the finest black and coloured inks, embellish ed with numerous engravings on wood, by the first artists, to serve, not only as specimens of the different inks, but also of ornamental printing. There will be an attempt to shew, that the use of brass-rule is capable of being extended beyond its present application. It will moreover contain directions for producing fine press-work; and comprise more practical information for the improvement of printing, generally, than any book on the art which has preceded it; tending to prove, that any printer, possessing good types and a good press, may execute the finest work.

Mr. BAYLEY, formerly of Merton College, has in the press, Idwal, the Narrative of Brito, and the Hostage, detached portions of an epic poem; with a poem in Greek hexameters.

Memoirs of European and Asiatic Turkey, from the manuscript journals of modern travellers in those countries, are preparing by ROBERT WALPOLE, A. M. in one volume, quarto, illustrated with plates. It will contain manuscript journals, and remarks on parts of Greece, Asia Minor, Syria, and Egypt, by late travellers; and statistics, antiquities, natural history, and geography, of those countries, will be elucidated by drawings and observations which have never yet been before the public, and which will communicate information as correct as it is new.

The fourth and concluding volume of Captain BURNEY'S History of Voyages and Discoveries in the South Seas; comprising all the voyages and discoveries antecedent to the reign of his present Majesty, bringing down their history until the point where Hawkes worth's three voyages begin.

A new edition of Dr. TROMSON'S System of Chemistry is in the press, and will speedily be published. The work will be entirely remodelled, and will be comprised in four octavo volumes.

A new work, entitled, the Dance of Life, intended to form a companion to the Dance of Death, is in the press. The designs are by Mr. ROWLANDSON, and the illustrations in verse by the author of Doctor Syntax's Tour. The first Number will appear on the first of May. There is also in the press a handsome edition, in royal 8vo. of the Vicar of Wakefield, with designs by Mr. Rowlandson,

SIR HUMPHREY DAVY has stated an opinion, in a recent communication to the Royal Society, that falling stars could not be owing to the combustion of gaseous meteors; but that they must be solid ignited masses moving with great velocity in the upper regions of the atmosphere.

A new mode of giving additional strength to iron and steel, is proposed by Mr. DANIELL. His plan is to twist metal, in the same manner as strength and compactness are given to hemp and flax.

Mr. JAMES THOMSON has in the press, in an octavo volume, De Courci, a Tale, in two cantos, with other poems; including commemorative addresses, written for several public institutions.

Under Biography, this month's list presents The Lives of the more Eminent of the Fathers of the first Three Centuries, by the Rev. ROBERT Cox. It is rather illustrative of character than recordant of fact, and is well calculated to give a correct general idea of the writings of those Christian leaders, and of the periods in which they flourished--a kind of knowledge which is by no means abundant.

The third volume of Village Conversations, by Mrs. RENOU, has just been published ; it is an attempt to familiarise moral and political philosophy by conversational dialogue. Her design is very respectably executed, and will materially assist parents in drawing out the minds of their children, with a view to the establishment of sound principles.

In the Bath Literary and Philosophical Society, the Rev. Mr. WRIGHT has described a very ingenious method of working a ship's pump by mechanical means, when the crew are too few in number to attend to that duty, and particularly in a heavy gale. It was used by Capt. Leslie in June last, during a voyage from Stockholm to America, when the crew were exhausted with pumping, and the ship was sinking. He fixed a spar aloft, one end of which was ten or twelve feet above the top of his pumps, and the other extremity projected over the stern: to each end of the spar he fastened a block: he then fastened a rope to the spears of his pump, and after passing it through both pulleys along the spar, dropped into the sea astern: to this end he fastened a cask of 110 gallons measurement, and containing, 60 or 70 gallons of water, which answered as a balance-weight; and the motion of the ship made the machinery work. When

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the stern of the ship descended, or any agita- ments he has found that he cannot bear the Lion of the water raised the cask, the pump- beat of water at 140° so long as that of tar at spars descended, and the contrary motion rais- 220°. ed the spear, and the water flowed out. The ship was thus cleared in four hours.

Mr. HATCHETT has contrived a process for sweetening musty corn. Musty grain, which is so bitter as to be totally uunt for use, and which can scarcely be ground, may be rendered perfectly sweet and sound by simply immersing it in boiling water, and letting it remain till the water becomes cold. The quantity of water to be double that of the corn to be purified. The musty quality rarely pene trates through the busk of the wheat; and in the very worst cases, it does not extend through the amylacceons matter which lies immediately under the skin. In the hot water, all the decayed or rotten grains swim on the surface, so that the remaining wheat is effectually cleaned from all impurities, without any material loss. The wheat is afterwards to be dried, stirring it occasionally on the kiln, when it will be found improved in a degree which can scarcely be believed.

The late Prof. ROBISON'S System of Mechanical Philosophy, with Notes and Illustrations by Dr. BREWSTER, is printing in four octavo volumes, with numerous plates.

In a few days will be published, the Bible Class Book, or scripture Readings for every day in the year, being Three Hundred and Sixty-five Lessons selected from the most interesting and instructive parts of the Sacred Scriptures. This selection is made upon a plan recommended by Dr. Watts, and its chief aim is that of becoming a School Class Book for youth in all stations of life, and of all religious denominations, for doctrinal and controversial points have been studiously omitted.

The Rev. Mr. BICHENG has in the press, An Examination of the Prophecies with a view to ascertain the probable issue of the recent restoration of the old Dynasties; of the revival of Popery; and of the present mental ferment Europe: as likewise how far Great Britain is likely to share in the Calamities by which Providence will accomplish the final overthrow of the kingdoms of the Roman Monarchy.

Dr. ARNOLD has communicated to the Linnæan Society a description of a remarkable volcanic mountain in the island of Java, drawn up from actual observation. It is called by the natives Tankubanprau. The road to it is very difficult, being through an almost impenetrable jungle. The crater has nearly the form of a truncated cone inverted. The sides are about 500 feet high, and in many places nearly perpendicular. At the bottom is a small lake, the water of which has the taste of a solution of sulphuric acid. This water was boiling in several parts of the lake; but its temperature on the edge was 112°. It was surrounded by a soft mud, apparently a mixture of sulphur and clay. The doctor is of opinion, that it occasionally emits flames, as the trees round its edge had the appearance of being scorched. On the west side of this crater, and merely separated from it by a thin partition of rocks, is another crater, rather larger than the first, having at its bottom a lake presumed that the two craters, though so near of cold water, from which circumstance it is to each other, have no connexion.

The translation of Lady MORGAN's (formerly Miss Owenson) last novel has been found some fault with in Paris, on account of the details relative to French manners, of which the anthor is said to have given an unfaithful delineation, and because she attributed to her characters, who are supposed to have lived at the time of the League, the ideas and manners of the 18th and 19th centuries. This is a fault, however, which is to be found in most historical novels, and which Madame de Genlis berself, has not always avoided.

A French translation of so much of FRANKLIN's Correspondence as has yet appeared, is already published at Paris, in two vols. 8vo.

MARTIN HENRY Klaproth, one of the most celebrated modern chemists, died at Berin on the first of January. He was born in 1743. His labours were principally directed towards the improvement of the processes which serve to determine the nature and the Mr. RICHARD DAVENPORT has published proportions of the elements of mineral subsome curious particulars relative to boiling tar. stances. In order to succeed in researches of Some know, and many probably have heard this kind, it is necessary to combine the talent without believing, while to others it will be of observation with a perfect knowledge of the quite new to bear, that a man can dip his properties of all simple and compound bodies, hand into boiling tar without suffering. Being and above all, extraordinary sagacity; and lately at Chatham Dock-yard, where he saw no person ever possessed these qualities in a a cauldron of tar in a state of ebullition, Mr. more eminent degree than Klaproth. ChemDavenportasked the workmen if they had ever istry is indebted to him for a vast number of seen any one dip his hand into tar in that analyses, which have served as a ground-work state. One of them," says he," immediate- for the classification & distinction of varieties. ly dipped his hand and wrist in, bringing out which he has investigated in the combinations Independently of the numerous phenomena fluid tar, and pouring it off from his hand as from a ladle. Satisfied that there was no de- of substances previously known, he has enrichception, I dipped in the entire length of my ed the empire of chemistry with four new subfore-finger, and moved it about a short time stances---tellurium, titanium, and zircon. Ang before the heat became inconvenient." He single one of these discoveries would be suffrepeated the experiment with the tar thorough- cient to shed lustre on the name of any chemJy boiling, and the thermometer at 220°, plunging in his finger, and making three oscillations of six or eight inches, which occupied between two and three seconds of time. The heat did not arise to any painful degree, though it adhered to the skin just like any other liquid of similar viscidity. Frotn subsequent experi

ist.

The public prints have recently given, on the authority of an English gentleman at Rome, some curious details relative to the Stuart papers in the possession of the late Cardinal York at the time of his decease. His letter, dated Jan. 10th, is as follows :--

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Stuart Manuscripts. Virgil's Bucolics-Badham's Itinerary.

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Latterly the Stuart papers have been the a peerage and 400,000l. in the result of his dechief subject of conversation here. The whole fection. There are letters of the Duke of of those which had been in the possession of Norfolk, signed N., but of no importance; he the late Cardinal York, forming a supplement seems to have been the most cautious of the probably to those in the Scotch College at Pa- party. I have heard something, but not with ris, had been traced and purchased by a Scotch that precision which you require, of a scheme gentleman of the name of Watson, a resident for the assassination of the Pretender. This, here during part of the late war. They have if accurate, is a serious charge, and may desince been secured and sealed by order of velope a singular scene of

government; the person from whom they The letters of the queen this strange drama.

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were purchased is arrested, and at this moment
papal gendarme keeps guard in the house.
I had a short view of them before they were
seized. How the papers first got out of the
cabinets of the Cardinal I have not heard; but
they came into the possession of Tassoni, au-
ditor of the Pope, and were confidentially en-
trusted to a priest of the name of Lussi. Wat-
son heard of this, and, after assuring himself
of the authenticity of the information, applied
for them to the priest. Lussi required the
permission of Tassoni, and it is understood, that
by well-directed douceurs his concurrence was
obtained. A receipt was given for two hun-
"This edition of the Mantuan bard,indepen-
dred crowns, and the papers secured in Wat-
son's lodgings. The new possessor of them dent of its typographical accuracy, is render-
talked and would take no advice. The cir- ed equally valuable for the school and the
cumstance at length transpired. Tassoni re- closet, the young student and the reader of ex-
gretted the affair, and applied to the Secretary tensive knowledge. The body of notes form-
of State, who interfered, on the ground of a ing the Appendix constitutes an excellent
fraudulent misrepresentation by Lussi. The commentary upon Virgil; and must prove of
latter and the papers were immediately seized. peculiar benefit to the pupil in clearing
The papers are numerous, authentic, and val- up difficulties of the sense or the metre. But
uable. They are supposed to amount to half these explanatory notes are of still farther
a million. Many of them were not unpacked utility, as tending to lead juvenile minds into
when I saw them, and covered, in great pack- a train of inquiry that will expand their ideas
ages, the sides of a small chamber, The whole
weighed seven tons. They begin with James
the Second and go down to the death of the
Cardinal York. In those which I saw, every
thing public and private is embraced, from
plots for invasion and correspondence with
foreign powers, &c. to the amours of the Pre-
tender, and the details of the domestic menage
of the Count of Albany. Several letters are
in the hand-writing of James and the Pretend-
er, and the whole collection is arranged with
an elaborate care which does credit to the
mere mechanical talents for business of the
exiles and their party. I saw among the po-
litical papers four proclamations of the son of
James, particularly to the Universities; the
Pretender promises the entire establishment of
their ecclesiatical rights, and his full support
of the Protestant church in all its privileges,
however ample. A short date after, comes a
letter of the Cardinal, congratulating him on
his open avowal of the Catholic religion! Of
course, these are admirable illustrations of
each. Then there is a letter to James, from
It is proposed to publish in monthly numbers,
the General of the Jesuits, offering him the eighteen original Journals (each by a general
support of himself individually, and his order, officer,) of the Eighteen Campaigns of the Em-
for any religious purpose he might design
them; it is very short and vague, signed, I peror Napoleon: (being those in which he
personally commanded in chief.) To which
think, Ritz, or Retz. Almost all the principal will be added all the Bulletins, now first pub-
families of Ireland and Scotland are impli- lished complete. The first Journal contains
cated. A Colonel O'Bryan seems to have Campaign in Italy, 1796-7.
been a remarkably active personage. Many
Mr. RYAN has in the press, a Treatise on
that have hitherto been only suspected, are
now deeply compromised, particularly the Mining and Ventilation, embracing in a par-
Wyndam family, who give most minute infor- ticular manner the subject of the coal stratifi-
mation, and many other members of parlia- cation of Great Britain and Ireland; with the
ment of the day. There is a very long letter most approved methods of discovering, work-
of Atterbury arranging a plan for invasion; ing, and ventilating the same.
one from the Duke of Leeds, offering Admiral Mr. William Gifford, the Editor of Mas-
Baker, then in command of the Channel fleet, singer and Ben Jonson, is preparing an
R Eon Mag. Vol. I.

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edition of Shirley, of whose valuable Plays uo collection has hitherto been made; they will consist of 6 vols. 8vo.

author, of the Rev. ROWLAND HILL'S Village A new and greatly enlarged edition, by the Dialogues, is in the press, and will be completed in twenty-four numbers.

NOVELS AND ROMANCES, PUBLISHED. The Absent Man; a Narrative. 12mo. Gumal and Lana, or the African Children. 2 vols. plates, 78. 6d.

The White Cottage, a Tale, 12mo. 7s. Favourite Beauties and Amours of Henry of Windsor. S vols. 15s.

Six Weeks at Long's, a Satirical Novel; by a late Resident. 3 vols. 12mo.

Ponsonby. 2 vols.

Modern Manners, or a Season at Harrowgate. 2 vols.

Family Annals, or the Sisters. By Mary Hays. 12me.

Fortitude and Frailty. By Fanny Hol

croft. 4 vols.

Hardenbrass and Haverill, or the Secret of the Castle. 4 vols.

The White Cottage. 12mo.

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The Life and Manners of the Baroness Ko-* ningsmark. 2s. 6d.

Oina Morul, one of the minor Poems of Ossian; in English Verse. Is.

of a Young Lady, written by herself. From A Prize in the Lottery; or, the Adventures the Italian of L'Abbate Chiari. Translated by Thomas Evanson White. 2 vols.

Education, or Elizabeth, her Lover and Husband, a Tale for 1817; by Elizabeth Taylor. 3 vols.

Stories for Children, selected from History of England, from the Conquest to the Revolu tion. 18mo.

Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield, translated into French; by M. Voullaire. 18me. Les Soirees De Londres; par Madame Herbster. 12mo.

POETRY.

pieces. By John Scott, author of a Visit to Paris. 8vo.

The House of Mourning, with some smaller

Royalty Beset, or, a Pill for Ministers. By Peter Pindar, esq. 8vo.

The South American; a Tale, in four Cantos. By James Scott Walker. 12mo.

VARIETIES,

CRITICAL, LITERARY, and HISTORICAL.

From La Belle Assemblee.

LORD VISCOUNT EXMOUTH.

N the 26th January, 1796, the Dut

ton, East Indiaman, in the transport service, was wrecked under the citadel of Plymouth, and totally lost. Lord Viscount Exmouth (then Sir Edward Pellew) was with many others a spectator from the shore of the dreadful calamity; and after offering a most liberal reward to any one who would convey a rope on board, but which none could be found to undertake, he boldly resolved to attempt the hazardous enterprize himself, and instantly dashed into the foaming waves, swam to the sinking wreck, which he never quitted until he had completed his work of humanity, by saving the lives of nearly five hundred of his fellowcreatures, who, but for his exertions, must inevitably have perished. freedom of the Borough of Plymouth was presented to him in an elegant silver box; and at a public entertainment given on the occasion, the following stanzas, written by a gentleman of Plymouth,

were recited :

The

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'Twas thine, Pellew, sublimely great and good! Forman, thy brother man, distress'd---to dare The dreadful passage of the raging flood,

And join the frantic children of despair. There, it was thine in comfort's balmy toue. To soothe their sorrows, 'mid the tempest's

roar:

To hush the mother's shrick---the sick man's

groan--

And bear the sufferers, trembling to the shore. So, when this mighty orb, in dread alarm,

Shall crash in ruins, at its God's decree;

The saving Angel, with triumphant arm, Shall, from the wreck of all things---rescue thee.

From the New Monthly Magazine.

PRESENCE of MIND in an ENGLISH SAI

LOR at the BATTLE of ALGIERS. Mr. Stenhouse, surgeon of the Glasgow frigate, relates the following anecdote: The captain of the fore-top, on his leg being so wounded that only a small portion of skin kept it connected with the

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The Incubus, or Night-Mare.

IMMOVEABLE JAWS.

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thigh, with a view of obtaining surgical blood; what reason can he alledged for aid as soon as possible, grasped a rope not having recourse to this last hope by which to lower himself upon deck. (transfusion) and for not attempting to When he had descended about half way recruit the exhausted frame, and turn from the fore-top, the mangled limb, the ebbing tide of life?" over which he could not possibly have: any control, became so entangled among flying ropes, that he was under the The wonderful power of the human necessity of hauling himself upwards constitution, in compensating for natural full three feet that he might disengage defects or artificial, derangements, is it with the assistance of the sound one, strikingly exemplified in the case of a whilst he was still hanging by his arms man whose cranium is now preserved in in the air, and with a shower of shot and Mr. Heaviside's Museum. At the early shells flying round him. At length age of four years a violent inflammation having accomplished his end, he de- on both sides of the face produced a scended quietly upon deck. disease of the jaw-bones, followed by When placed in the cockpit, and wait- anchylosis or immobility of the lower ing till Mr. Stenhouse had completed jaw. During the next fifty years there the amputation of an arm in which he was no mastication whatever of the was then engaged, the death of the bu- food, and yet he never experienced a gleman, whose wife was at this time in day's illness. In eating he was in the the cockpit, was announced. The poor habit of thrusting in his food with his woman was instantly thrown into a vio- fingers by the left side of the mouth lent paroxysm of grief, and while she was where several of the teeth were deficient. thus bewailing her loss, the wounded captain of the top, with much compasure and naïveté, called out-" Come, Poll, leave off blubbering-you shall not be a widow long; I will marry you myself directly I am well!" He has since performed his promise.-Mr. Stenhouse's Official Report to the Transport Board,

TRANSFUSION OF BLOOD.

THE INCUBUS, OR NIGHT-MARE.

Mr. Waller, a navy surgeon, has written a very interesting little treatise on this distressing complaint. Refreshing sleep is not only such a criterion of health, but such a solace of our woes, and such a rest to our waking enjoyments, that an investigation of the cause of any interruption therein, is not beDr. Leacock, of Barbadoes, has, in a neath the dignity of a medical philosolate inaugural thesis, detailed a variety pher. Mr. Waller has successfully com of experiments on animals, by which it bated several erroneous but popular opiwould appear that transfusion of blood nions respecting this curious maladyfrom one animal to another is not only such as, that it only happens while we safe, but, in all analogical probability, lie on our backs, and after having eaten would be, on certain occasions, such as heavy suppers, &c. Hence the causes profuse bleeding, instrumental in saving have been ascribed to mechanical preslife. Animals, on being bled to syncope, sure on the lungs, from an extended stoin general died when left to the efforts mach. But these are fallacious positions. of nature; but when the warm blood of other animals was allowed to flow into their veins, they suddenly and rapidly recovered. These experiments were varied in a great number of ways, but always with the same result. Dr. Leacock concludes thus :-" When the dan. ger is imminent, and common means ineffectual-as when a parturient woman trembles on the brink of the grave, from uterine hæmorrhage; or when a soldier is at the point of death from loss of

Mr. Waller knew one instance where it
proved fatal, and has been credibly in-
formed of several. Virgil draws an ex-
quisite picture of Incubus in the 12th
book of the Æneid—

Ac velut in somnis, oculos ubi languidos pressit
Nocte quies, nequicquam avidos extendere

cursus

Velle videmur, et in mediis conatibus ægri

Succidimus; non lingua valet, non corpore

notæ

Sufficiunt vires, nec vox, nec verba sequuntut

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